"The primary function of art is not to……" — Lawren Harris
"The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions."
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30 Quotes by Lawren Harris
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Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.
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Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
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Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.
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Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a…
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Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in…
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Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final…
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Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual…
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For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.
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The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once…
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Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence…
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I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know…
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It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must…
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